3/2/2015

In June 1975, a Yale economist named William Nordhaus published a paper for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, an Austrian think tank. In the paper, he put forward a theory about a potentially globe-altering climate-change ...

29/1/2015

Now that they control both houses of Congress, Republicans are eager to show that they have good ideas and can govern the nation responsibly. Will they take this opportunity to tackle the growing threat of global warming? The question bears close ...

27/1/2015

The collapse of legislation to reduce US greenhouse-gas emissions was one of the most significant failures of President Barack Obama’s first term in office. Halfway through his second, in the face of an entrenched Republican majority on Capitol ...

21/11/2014

Several people have asked me to comment on the notion, flying all over political media at the moment, that Obama might use Keystone XL as a bargaining chip to trade in exchange for Republican support for ... something else.
This kind of ...

18/11/2014

Pop the champagne corks in Washington! It’s party time for Big Energy. In the wake of the midterm elections, Republican energy hawks are ascendant, having taken the Senate and House by storm. They are preparing to put pressure on a president ...

7/9/2014

Whatever you may imagine, “peak oil” has not been discredited as a concept, a statement no less true for “peak fossil fuels.” Think of them instead as postponed. We are, after all, on a finite planet that, by definition, holds a finite amount ...

24/8/2014

With oil and gas booming in the United States – and wind energy booming for now – both industries hope to extend their success by moving offshore.
And they’re getting help from the federal government, which on Tuesday auctioned off ...

30/5/2014

On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency will release a first-ever set of regulations to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the country`s existing fleet of power plants. The agency recently issued similar rules for new power plants, which ...

14/5/2014

Vancouver Rabbi David Mivasair cites an ancient midrash, or biblical commentary, to explain why he opposes thermal coal exports through B.C.'s Texada Island in a new letter.
Roughly two thousand years ago, the author of Ecclesiastes ...

23/2/2014

When Barack Obama took office in 2009, it was clear that if he could do four big things, his presidency would probably be judged a success.The first, of course, was to pull the country out of its desperate economic crisis. The second was ...

2/2/2014

Canada’s Conservative government seized on a new report to push U.S. President Barack Obama to swiftly approve the cross-border Keystone pipeline, while its political arm lashed out at U.S. opponents in a new ad.
“The benefits to the ...

9/12/2013

As Congress dithers for the umpteenth time over extending a key subsidy for wind energy, the industry once again is up in the air. Called the production tax credit (PTC), the subsidy helps level the playing field between wind and fossil fuels and ...

1/11/2013

On Tuesday, the coal industry bused a few thousand miners from coal country into Washington, D.C., for a protest in front of the Capitol against the Obama administration`s so-called "war on coal."
Speakers, many of them senators and ...

24/9/2013

A string of plant closures, project cancellations and other setbacks has raised new doubts about the future of nuclear power in the United States, but there's disagreement about whether the retrenchment will be limited and temporary or the ...

23/9/2013

Two days before Gina McCarthy [3], the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, presented her landmark proposal to regulate carbon emissions from future electric plants, one of her main allies in Congress walked her down memory ...

23/9/2013

Two days before Gina McCarthy [3], the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, presented her landmark proposal to regulate carbon emissions from future electric plants, one of her main allies in Congress walked her down memory ...

13/9/2013

Is the changing climate we face today the result of human activity, or is it the result of cattle (Bos primigenius)?Current environmentalist dogma declares that cattle, other livestock species (including chickens [Gallus gallus ...

25/5/2013

President Barack Obama began his second term with a ringing pledge to tackle climatechange — saying that “the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.”
Four months later, everyone’s still ...

6/5/2013

State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...

5/5/2013

Fracking separates fossil fuels from rock more than a mile underground. The drilling technique, a boon for the natural gas industry this past decade, also divides environmentalists. Greens, locally and globally, are losing sight of their common ...

29/4/2013

Recently, the American Society of Civil Engineers released its latest Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, a measure of the condition, capacity, and maintenance of the nation’s vital systems, accounting for their ability to meet future needs ...

12/4/2013

Clean energy research and low-carbon transportation are priorities in President Obama's $3.7 trillion budget request. But the document unveiled yesterday offers only a modest stab at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate ...

26/3/2013

Poor management has hampered a U.S. program to develop technology to capture carbon-dioxide emissions, the Energy Department inspector general said in a report that raises new questions about a clean-energy initiative backed by the 2009 economic ...

15/3/2013

With few options available for financing his clean-energy ambitions, President Obama on Friday will propose diverting $2 billion in revenue from federal oil and gas leases over the next decade to pay for research on advanced vehicles, White House ...

27/2/2013

More than three dozen national security officials, members of Congress and military leaders are warning of the threat climatechange poses to U.S. national security, the latest in an indicator that U.S. intelligence and national security circles ...